ABSTRACT
The quality of networks does not only depend on the quality of the individual links and nodes, but also on the way these nodes and links function in the context of networks. Interconnectivity problems can have quite different meanings in different spatial settings. Interconnectivity problems in multimodal settings partly coincide with the unimodal case, but they are usually more complex because they involve the operations of multimodal nodes leading to additional investments of node operators and the coordination of services in different modes. The long list of potential actors involved in transport makes clear that the costs of coordination and transaction may be substantial. To arrive at efficiently produced transport services of sufficient quality, certain actors in the transport chains will start cooperation with other actors. The study of interconnectivity shifts attention from individual lines and nodes to multimodal networks. From a policy perspective there are many reasons why governments should bother about interconnectivity.
